Miss Representation Journal

The documentary we watched as a class really opened my eyes at how this country treats women and how we expect them to be. The way young girls are discouraged by society and encouraged by women who are photoshopped to try to achieve perfection is sick. Women cannot possibly think that they could look beautiful with all the pressure from the media and the magazines with fake women in them. This documentary shows the real life struggles with young girls and the what they really face in their everyday life. From cutting themselves in depression, to starving themselves in desperation of perfection, these girls put themselves through hell and back just so they could look like a person who has been altered by the computer to look a certain way. Our society needs to go back to how they used to be and accept women for how they are not what they look like.